Happy November and it's snowing! Can you believe it? I hope you all had a safe and Happy Halloween. We didn't have one Trick or Treater at our new home. Such a switch from the many we had in our old neighborhhood. Oh well, now to the thoughts of Thanksgiving and the coming holidays.
Thank you to all the parents who came along on our Reading Community Field Trip. We had a glorious day and the kiddos enjoyed meeting all of the town officials and community workers. Check out the fire fighters who entertained the kids with the fire apparatus. Thank you Officer Burns and fellow Reading fire fighters.
 |
| Friends Forever |
 |
| Too much excitement |
Check out our kiddos and friends at the other venues:
Thank you to Norah Daly for helping me organize our Halloween activities. Thank you too, to all the families who sent in supplies for that day. We had a great morning creating some spooky and cute Halloween projects. Thank you to Mrs. Daly, Ms. Michelman, and Mrs. Tittemore for helping out with centers and assisting with keeping projects running smoothly. You rocked! Here are some snapshots from our Halloween morning:
 |
| Mummies! Don't look too scary! |
 |
| Pumpkin Patch sooooo cute! |
 |
| Such focus! Looking ahead, we are wrapping up our community unit with a project in the computer lab. More information will follow soon and you will be able to view our projects through EDLINE so stay tuned. The Community Portfolios will be given to you at conference time. Our next Social Studies unit is Mapping. Children will be exploring maps with a fucus on continents, oceans, major mountain ranges, major rivers and the countries of North America. We will also be wrapping up Fundations' Unit 4 and InFocus Math Chapter 3. I moved Dictation to Monday due to our Halloween activities. Math will be assessed on Thursday. That is the chapter on subtraction with and without regrouping. Please remembrr that the old word BORROW is not used anymore. The proper term is regroup. To make more of a visual connection I say, "More on the top, no need to stop. More on the floor, go next door and get ten more! Numbers the same, zero's the name." The children over all have been doing pretty well with the concept. There is one more challenge and that is crossing over zeros. This will be taught and practiced on Monday -Wedensday of this week. In writing, we are still working on creating a great lead or opening to our narratives and small moment writing pieces. The children are learning to edit their work and "spice-up" their writing for their audience. (On Monday mornng, the children continue to write a narrative piece about their weekend. It's great to see the growth in this process. I will share these at conference time.) In grammar, we have been learning about proper nouns. Kiddos need reminders to capitalize proper names of people, pets, places, days, months and holidays in all writing across the curriculum. Enjoy the weeks leading up to conferences and the holidays. I believe there will be a questionaire coming home this week so that you can think about talking points for a valuable conferene experience. I will also send reminders for times home next week. Have a great week everyone! |
